Legal developments
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Beyond Do No Harm: Business Responsibilities When Markets Become Essential Infrastructure
On the first week of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, supermarket chain ATB opened selected “pivot”…
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Soft Law in the Shadow of Hard Law: Can Japan’s METI Guidelines Act as a Transitional Model for Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence?
The record of voluntary business and human rights regulation has often been disappointing. Germany’s 2016 National…
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From Meaningful Engagement and Consultation to Climate Change Considerations: The Wild Coast Decision from the Constitutional Court of South Africa
On 14 August 2026, the South African Constitutional Court (CC) delivered its decision in The Sustaining…
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Corporations Constructing International Human Rights Law
The relationship between corporations and international human rights is an uneasy one. Efforts have been made…
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Banned at Home, Sold Abroad: Corporate Due Diligence and the Export Door Europe Left Open
In July 2026, Delhi Police stationed two surveillance vehicles outside Jantar Mantar, the site the police…
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A Right to Consent Without the Possibility of Refusal Is Not a Right to Consent:A Legal Critique of Paragraph 11 of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights’ 2026 Indigenous Peoples FPIC Guidance
On 16 June 2026, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Working Group on Business and Human…
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The Hidden Burden of Proof: How the EU Forced Labour Guidelines Reshape the Allocation of Proof
On 26 June 2026, the European Commission adopted Guidelines on Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 (Forced Labour Regulation,…
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Corporate Climate Obligations after the Omnibus Reforms: Rethinking the Way Forward
The recent Omnibus reforms to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) have significantly reshaped the…
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India’s Gig-Workers Law and the Responsibility to Respect
Introduction Over the New Year of 2026, tens of thousands of delivery workers went on strike…
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Rebuilding Rights Through Relationships? Stakeholder Reconstruction in Syria
Introduction Business and Human Rights (BHR) scholarship has increasingly focused on conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRAs).…